By the time children reach school, they have spent one-third of their waking hours in front of the television. The essential influence of TV is just beginning to be realized, and we have found out that most of the effects are bad. Too much of a child’s time is wasted. It is time for us to understand the negative aspect that televisions can have on little children.

One reason why watching TV is bad for children is that they can be influenced and tricked by TV. They get surrounded by advertisements for dangerous toys, mindless games, and unhealthy food. They force their parents to buy them, for the children are too young to know what they are doing and how to protect themselves.

Another bad fact of watching TV is kids are over exposed to violence. They watch hours of murders, fights, and crimes every week with no adult who can tell them life is not like that most of the time. For example some teenagers began to shot their classmates and teachers on campus because they had watch the same thing on a TV. Is that what parents want their children to learn?

Most serious of all, kids who often watch TV are becoming passive. They just sit at back and let things happen to them. Children are inventive. They have the ability to imagine a whole new world on their own but what happens is TV limits their imaginations sometimes when TV does all the imagining for them? Obviously, these kids are not going to grow up as creative as their parents, for they have been robbed of creative ideas by watching TV.

All in all it can be dangerous for kids to spend too much time watching TV; therefore, it is time for parents to take charge and supervise their children’s play. They should engage in good activities with their children instead of leaving the kids to a TV and hoping it will act as a baby sitter. The effect of watching TV is so serious that parents have to be on their ways in order to make sure that their children are not being harmed by falling into it..

April 2003